Trouble displaying mail in inbox

[Verbunk]

Hi Guys,

Originally I thought I had a problem with fetchmail but it turns out that I'm having a problem displaying new mail in my inbox. I can see the messages archived in gmail (I use fetchmail to grab this mail) yet don't show up in my zimbra mailbox. I have sent some test messages b/w my external email addresses and run fetchmail by hand and verified that it does see the messages and does download them without throwing a bounce. I just don't know where they are going. I have checked trash, junk, and the rest of my folders, no luck. Lastly I sent myself an email from within zimbra and it did not show up. I have verified in the fetchmail output that it is sending it to my correct email on the zimbra install (RCPT TO Poking around the admin interface I noticed that they are in the deferred tab under the mail queues. Clicking the flush button had no effect.

The last problem I fixed was permissions issues preventing tomcat from starting (answer found in forum), this was about a week ago, other than that's things have been quiet.

This seems dangerous as I don't want my mail to bounce. Any suggestions?

-Joshua

[bobby]

does it give a reason why they're being deferred?

[Verbunk]

I don't see any sort of error/status message in the 'deferred' tab. However the messages switch from the active tab to deferred tab. At least the total counts in these two tabs seems to flip-flop. Is there someplace special to look for error/status messages other than the log directory /opt/zimbra/log ?

[bobby]

postqueue -p
/var/log/zimbra.log

[Verbunk]

Great! postqueue -p reveals the server is trying to send the messages to a server with a different IP than it's address.

It seems fiddling with the hosts file and the firewall dhcp naming it will eventually work (I went to dinner and it was all fixed when I came back :P)

Hope this helps someone else. The key to know is make sure Zimbra can resolve your ip accurately.